Senior Program Quality and Learning Officer (GBV/WPE)

Location: Hybrid, with the primary location in Nairobi, Kenya; open to candidates located in Kenya, Uganda, or Burundi who have the right to work in their location. Travel across six countries, including hardship and conflict-affected locations, may be required.

Company

hirify.global is an international humanitarian NGO supporting people affected by conflict and disaster through health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and community-strengthening programs.

What you will do

• Coordinate technical quality, learning, and adaptive management across the six POWER country programs.
• Oversee survivor-centered GBV/WPE programming, including case management, women and girls’ safe spaces, clinical and MHPSS referral pathways, and social norms work.
• Design and deliver the partnership learning pillar, including cross-country learning cycles, documentation, structured reflection, and evidence generation.
• Track delivery against scope, timelines, and budgets, identify deviations early, and support adaptive management.
• Strengthen women-led and local partners’ governance, financial systems, safeguarding, MEAL, and emergency surge capacity.
• Connect community-generated analysis and program evidence to advocacy, donor engagement, policy positioning, and the next partnership phase.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in social work, gender studies, international development, human rights, public health, law, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of qualifications and experience.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in GBV, WPE, or protection programming in humanitarian and conflict-affected settings, including technical leadership.
• Experience in feminist partnership, localization, program quality or learning, program or grant management, and budget oversight.
• Strong grounding in WPE practice and the IASC GBV Minimum Standards, with sound safeguarding and Do No Harm judgment.
• Experience coordinating multi-country programs and translating evidence into policy-relevant recommendations for donors, multilaterals, and normative bodies.
• Fluent English and the right to work in Kenya, Uganda, or Burundi are required.

Nice to have

• French language skills.
• Arabic language skills.
• Experience working in East and Central Africa, including Sudan and South Sudan contexts.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement under a local employment contract.
• Work with women-led and local organizations through a feminist partnership and power-sharing framework.
• Opportunity to support advocacy, locally led social action, and evidence-based programming in conflict and displacement settings.
• Local hiring and salary scale according to the candidate’s work location.
• Travel may include hardship and conflict-affected locations across the POWER countries.